Developers of Vosk Speech Toolkit

α Cep / Astrakhan, Russia
Joined October 2019
Listening the samples here benchmarks.cekura.ai/text-to… many are robotic, not really conversational style but more an airport announcements. Leaderboard scores are totally off. Some are good, for example Gemini 3.8 Flash. We need to build our own leaderboard one day.
Today we are launching @cekuraAi's Text-to-Speech Bench. We tested 26 TTS models across 30,564 requests to compare their speed, reading accuracy, naturalness, and interruption handling. When sent a full sentence, the fastest model started speaking in a median of 46ms, while the slowest took 1.65 seconds, nearly 36 times longer. But the fastest models were not necessarily the most natural-sounding. The model that scored highest on naturalness ranked 15th of 26 on full-sentence speed. For the benchmark, every model read the same 104 agent sentences three times, from the same cloud region. We also tested word-by-word streaming, interruption handling, playback gaps, and request failures. Reading accuracy and naturalness were estimated using automated scorers. We have published the complete leaderboard, methodology, and audio samples so you can compare the models yourself. Explore the results: benchmarks.cekura.ai/text-to…
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Ok, I figured out cekura uses just UTMOS for naturalness score. No voting by human. Then results are more or less understandable.
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Intonation is also weird for the top model. No trust in AA ratings, many times they failed like that. Muse was another example.
Ming TTS 3.0 0.5b has a big noise accumulation issue with longer speech in the video I created with KeCHe. this issue is with every TTS model that uses VAE rep. Figured some workarounds yet nothing worked perfectly. It also shows how bad the TTS leaderboards are ATM
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OpenSVBench Leaderboard Cross-scenario evaluation of speaker verification systems on a fixed public core opensvbench.xyz/
OpenSVBench: Diagnosing Speaker Verification Generalization Across Deployment Scenarios Qituan Shangguan, Bosen Xu, Shuai Wang arxiv.org/abs/2610.13760 [𝚎𝚎𝚜𝚜.𝙰𝚂 𝚌𝚜.𝚂𝙳]
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AlphaCephei retweeted
Today, we're open-sourcing 5 Ming-3.0 models across 3 speech families. - Ming-3.0-tts: 0.5B voice design & paralinguistic cues; Tiny 7.9B A1.3B long-form speech. - Ming-3.0-audio: Flash 126B A6.5B understanding & tools; Tiny 9.3B A2.7B efficient dialogue. - Ming-3.0-asr: Tiny 8.6B A2B dialects & context.
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VoxLock: huggingface.co/arbazsiddiqui… the best performing voice isolator there is. Benchmarked on Krisp's 265 clips benchmark gives WER 4.95%. It also lets through 0.11 leaked background words per minute, against 1.52 for Krisp.
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AlphaCephei retweeted
How to kill a voice agent? Just turn on the TV ☠️ We benchmarked 14 voice agents with a TV playing in the background. Task completion fell from 38.7% to 8.6% 🧵/
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Reading Claude outputs everywhere. I barely understand the meaning. Help! The ElevenLabs rows are a control, not a complaint All 2600 outputs remain in the evaluation. Twelve outputs reached the 512-token cap so the choice of reward model is itself a robustness decision
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AlphaCephei retweeted
$52M seed round. 15M+ users. But this is what we're most proud of yet. Introducing Drama 3: the most emotive and controllable TTS model in the world And yes, it's open-weight. You can now control how even a single word should sound, change its tone, and shift your voice mid-sentence. Uncle Roger was impressed too. Try it here: s.fish.audio/rqh0l8 Comment “DRAMA” within the next 48 hours for 1 month free. If you're an enterprise your first month is on us: s.fish.audio/qz9r0t
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Tested this Whisper finetune, very good model for many languages, accurate and less hallucinations, really recommended as Whisper replacement.
Replying to @EricBezzam
Whisper v3 turbo fine-tune from @TheStageAI improves over the original in both English and multilingual, and with significant speedup 🔥
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PHOS can now listen — and speak. 🎙️🔊 STT and TTS are now part of the stack, bringing PHOS one step closer to real voice interaction, using cloud and local provider. @alphacep @cartesia github.com/phosairobot/phos #PHOS #RaspberryPi #Robotics #SpeechAI #OpenSource
🤖 Made with AI
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AlphaCephei retweeted
Neuphonic just released NeuDecide, an audio-first tiny decision model at only 43 MB, running on a single CPU thread!! > Speech directly to tool calls (no transcription needed) > Just 46 ms inference on an M3 MacBook > Runs fully offline, even on mobile & Raspberry Pi > 75.5% tool accuracy on SLURP
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AlphaCephei retweeted
📢 The Conversational AI Reading Group is back for Fall 2026! 🎙 First talk: Sreyan Ghosh (Google DeepMind), "Towards Fully Open General Audio Intelligence" 📅 Thu, Oct 8 · 11am–12pm ET · online, open to all Schedule & Zoom: poonehmousavi.github.io/rg.h… @SreyanG #ConvAIRG
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AlphaCephei retweeted
While I'm at Interspeech, another paper is coming out: arxiv.org/abs/2609.30784 It presents a way to turn a text LLM into an audio language model without any fine-tuning, just by manipulating its memory and letting it behave like an audio LM.
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AlphaCephei retweeted
We release a technical blog on training PocketTTS, our 100M parameter on-device TTS, through drifting, a recent one-step generative objective from Deng et al. Less than 1% WER, high quality and voice cloning. To the best of our knowledge, it's the first speech model, and the first autoregressive model, trained this way.
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AlphaCephei retweeted
Who wants more speech training data? YODAS v3 is now available @huggingface It’s 1.1M hours - the biggest audio dataset ever. And the first at this scale with stereo audio at 48kHz, with timestamped transcripts and translations. 100+ langs hf.co/blog/espnet/yodasv3 CC-BY-3.0
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